tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Dec 20 14:41:16 1997
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Re: KLBC: Short and Easy
- From: Bill Willmerdinger <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Short and Easy
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 17:15:28 -0500
- Organization: IKV Crystal Dagger, Klingon Assault Group Rochester NY
- References: <[email protected]>
Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> >}wa'DIch yuQvetlhDaq nejwI' wIngeH muD QulmeH vaj wa'DIch mID wIchenmoH
> >}"First, we send a probe to that planet in order to research it then we
> >build }the first colony"
> >
> >Unless this is something else I'm missing from KGT, we can't use the ordinal
> >numbers as adverbials. As far as I know, {wa'DIch} means first as in {nagh
> >wa'DIch} ("first rock") but not as in "first we must ..."
>
> Yeah, this is something that bothered me from the first time I heard taHjaj
> wo' (Krankor's Klingon anthem). There's that line in the tlhegh wejDIch
> that goes "... 'ach Heghmaj yIpIHQo' ghaytan wa'DIch jagh'e' wIHeghmoHmo'"
> (I can't sing it as written, I always sing DIHeghmoHmo'--and Krankor has
> given me permission to do so--but that's not relevant here). That's an
> adverbial use of "first" (as in "firstly" or "before that", which may be
> slightly different in meaning). But what are you going to do? It's in the
> song, and I like the song anyway.
There is the "odd" usage of {wa'DIch} on S15, where the Klingon text
reads:
wa'DIch tlhIngan Dujmey luleghlu'pu'bogh rur qItI'nga' Duj...
Did we ever figure out what that was all about?
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